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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
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Sylvester
Georgia
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Love
August
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Enough

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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
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After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.
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Honeybees depend not only on physical contact with the colony, but also require it's social companionship and support. Isolate a honeybee from her sisters and she will soon die.
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It's always been my hope that I would write a story that would inspire and would connect with people in a way that would touch hearts.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
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And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.
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I'll write this all down for you, I said. I'll put it in a story. I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
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I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.
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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
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Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
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Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
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I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
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I'd heard August say more than once, If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you. T. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.
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You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.
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I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
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